NBA baseline: Bobcats’ Silas doesn’t mince words, even in church league

With thanks to the Charlotte Observer’s Rick Bonnell, here is a reminder that coaches coach, and in the heat of battle, they can’t help being themselves, no matter the level at which they are working.

Before Michael Jordan tapped Paul Silas to replace Larry Brown as coach of the Charlotte Bobcats, Silas had been in semi-retirement at his home near Lake Norman, N.C. But he had been helping coach some 12-year-olds in a church recreation league. An assistant coach, mind you.

So the team makes it to the championship game, and the head coach can’t make it for some reason, and it’s left to Silas to guide the team, which loses the title game.

Silas told the writers who cover the Bobcats he went into a three-day funk over the loss, but not as bad as he felt about flashing back to his NBA days and letting loose some choice words to his church-leaguers, one of whom reacted in a very church-league way.